margin

Liver

...at the umbilicus, and passes upward along the free margin of the falciform ligament of the liver to the inferior surface of the liver. There it joins with the left branch of the portal vein. The ductus venosus carries blood from the left portal vein to the left hepatic vein and thence to the inferior v...

Leaf

...craspedodromus (the major veins stretch up to the margin of the leaf) and camptodromous (major veins come...pes See Leaf shape Leaf margins The leaf margin is characteristic for a genus and aids in determining the species. entire: even; with a smooth mar...

Gregor Mendel

...win's Origin (as evidenced by his notes in the margin of the copy in his monastery), but apparently failed to realize its significance. Darwin received a copy of Mendel's paper, but he did not read it (as evidenced by the pages of the paper remaining uncut). In the event, the modern evolutionary synt...

Cytoplasm

...ed cytosol , is a liquid in movement. In general, margin regions of the cell are gel-like and the cell's interior is liquid. The insoluble constituents of the cytoplasm are organelles (such as the mitochondria , the chloroplast , lysosomes , peroxysomes , ribosomes ), several vacuoles , cytoskele...

Cancer

...e tumor leads to a greater chance of recurrence. A margin of healthy tissue is often resected to allow for small amounts of residual tumor cells. In addition to removal of the primary tumor, surgery is often necessary for staging, e.g. determining the extent of the disease and whether there has been metas...

Barbiturate

...rbiturates. With the development of tolerance, the margin of safety between the effective dose and the lethal dose becomes very narrow. That is, in order to obtain the same level of intoxication, the tolerant abuser may raise his or her dose to a level that may result in coma or death. Although many indiv...